On this day: October 8

Chicago burns, Don Larsen is perfection in the World Series, Jerry Lee Lewis records his biggest hit, and Martha Stewart reports to prison, all on this day.

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Birds Eye

1956: Clarence Frank Birdseye II, the inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry, dies of a stroke at age 69 at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City.

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